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Image sizes: 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16 File formats: BMP, GIF, PNG, ICO ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing Buttons for Windows Vista and Windows 7 ProjectsLearn about the newest trends in designing contemporary Windows Vista-style graphics for your programs and Web projects.Producing software or developing an online project? Ensure your application looks current and up-to-date by checking the pictures used against current standards. This text explains the latest trends in drawing modern, good-looking graphics for your off-line and on-line projects. With every new version of Windows, Microsoft refreshes guidelines for icon designers. If you want your project look consistent with the newest version of Windows, it is essential to read and understand the guidelines. Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style graphics differ from previously used XP-style images in several ways. The drawing style of the new graphics becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming photorealistic. Microsoft also extends the icon format by defining the maximum size of the icons to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that applications look good on modern high resolution displays. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller-size viewing experience, and advises that toolbar graphics bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest sizes. Toolbar images in Windows Vista have no very little details such as shadows, and are front-faced with no perspective. Well-designed and thought of images enhance the appearance of your programs, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Great icons improve usability and efficiency of products, making it faster to learn and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good images make objects and actions easier to learn and to use every day. Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of ready-made application and toolbar icon images drawn in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to all guidelines, the icons share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard sizes, including the recently defined 256x256 True Color format with semi-transparency. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in programs designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Just visit www.777icons.com to view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons. ![]()
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